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Idylls must be fought for every single hour

My overwhelming thoughts or feeling about the political state of play is on file in the archives, retrieved below. This is not a bad order to take them in:

Months ago, it was expressed this way on X:

The truly mortifying aspect of it, imho, has been:

Remember When Music Belonged To Everyone?

The beauty of writing a song that revolves around a universal idea is that people feel like it could be theirs: it voices the way they’re feeling.The first time I heard my band Chumbawamba’s hit Tubthumping played at the ground of my local football club, I was standing at the urinal in the toilet underneath the stands, pissing the afternoon away with scores of other blokes, ready for the match. I walked up to my seat and watched people singing along to what had instantly become, in that moment at least, their song.

How nice. A pleasant enough ditty with a repetitive beat. But hardly a great tune that will live forever. Why are we hearing about it now? 

Tubthumping belongs to the guests at the wedding who sing it in celebration. It belongs to the Italian anti-fascists who sing it in defiance on a demonstration. It belongs to cancer patients going through chemotherapy, seeing every successful bout of treatment as a personal victory. I know that all these people have taken the song as theirs, because they write to tell us.

OK, so what are you complaining about? I mean, since this is the 'Guardian' you must be complaining about something.  

But there’s a problem with these universal songs – they can be hijacked by people who clearly don’t understand the spirit in which they were written, and want to use them to aggrandise themselves, or to sell ideas that aren’t universal at all.

Ah. Right.  

Because that’s the thing with songs, with literature, with art, theatre, cinema, with most of the beautiful, creative, cultural things we love – they are very rarely created by those on the political right. The bigots don’t have any good songs of their own.

Are you sure? I mean, in the very same pages we are always reading about how some classic works of the past are really evil right-wing tracts or monuments or institutions produced by blood-soaked right wing demagogues. Even former darlings of the left aren't immune.  

Let me be clear: the song Tubthumping was written to celebrate the resilience and tenacity of working-class folk who keep fighting when the chips are down.

But only if they aren't fighting against having their neighbourhoods and workplaces filled with immigrants, eh, Boff old chum? If that were to happen, you'd be back in the pages of the 'Guardian', squaling that it wasn't written for these working class folk after all.

It has nothing whatsoever in common with wealthy politicians with extremist anti-liberal agendas.

So what? I recall things didn't get better under Blair, in fact, they got worse, so the choice of music reaveals nothing.  

Former Tory prime minister David Cameron listed one of his favourite songs as the Jam’s Eton Rifles which prompted the Jam’s Paul Weller to retort “Which bit didn’t you get? … It wasn’t intended as a fucking jolly drinking song for the cadet corps.” When Cameron also admitted to liking the Smiths, guitarist Johnny Marr said simply: “Stop saying that you like The Smiths, no you don’t. I forbid you to like it.”

Boff thinks this is exposing something about politicians. It's not. It's exposing something about progressive songwriters.  

And still we do not drag them outside and hang the lot of em

Consider:

https://lesalonbeige.fr/22-des-medecins-en-soins-palliatifs-prets-a-demissionner-52-utiliseront-la-clause-de-conscience/

These Rules Need To Change

Kenner a self employed tiler was initially charged with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in August 2021 which fetches a maximum of life imprisonment but after five separate court adjournments for undisclosed reasons prosecutors eventually accepted his guilty plea in September 2023 to the lesser charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.

Yet again, the useless CPS proves themselve too lazy to do the real work. 

They then recommended he faced a maximum of only two and a half years behind bars under sentencing guidelines before a further three hearings came and went whilst Kenner tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his guilty plea.

All paid for by the long suffering taxpayers, of course!  

This week, 31 months since the assault, Kenner who arrived 20 minutes late for his hearing at Bolton Crown Court was ordered to complete 150 hours unpaid work and was sent on a 'Building Better relationships' programme after a powerless judge said he had 'very little option' but to let him go free.

I don't blame the judge, he's probably right. 

The court heard he had already spent 11 months on remand before being bailed on a curfew to await trial and as a result under Home Office rules had already served the equivalent of a 23 month prison sentence.

This rule has to go - surely it would be a quick win for a Conservative Home Sec (if we actually had one)? 

If we are always told that people on remand are 'innocent until proven guilty' then why should their time on remand be counted as part of their sentence? That should only start when they are found guilty!   

For what to know anyway?

 This piece is also to run at OoL, plus on X. Why? Laziness in an ageing man? Can’t be bothered taking any one of a multitude of dire things happening and writing one good journo post on it for our daily fix of world horrors?

Or is it not feeling all that well under the Gates chemtrail sky, plus the ailments which start to grip, fed by the pharmaceutical industry … am I now on the teat, so to speak … to the grave?

Is it substandard, shoddy services, inc. the chemicalised food supply, meal by meal by meal so that fashionable conditions kick in for all … BSE, SARS, Covid and now the lucrative cancer fast tracking? Not just for the old … why deprive the young of cancer (carcinogens in the very air, plus food supply) … why deprive the young of lucrative heart attacks, blood clots?

And still the bought MSM, with each successive late Millennial and early Zoomer intake of the mindless new Eloi, keep pumping out what the late Millennial and early Zoomer intake of the mindless medical “profession”, now part of the “evidence based” medicos reading from the handed down new literature, censored by the bigwigs doing this to us … private companies, not public health, no longer real GPs … might it be anything to do with that?

And why not create food shortages, invent Climate Change tied to human activity? Why not attack one of the building blocks of human and other life … carbon … such that the sheeple are fooled into buying the constant state of societal crisis?

There's No Common Sense In This, Steven...

Queensland Premier Steven Miles on the sad story of a magpie called Molly, seized by Queensland's Department of Science, Environment and Innovation:

'I think sometimes common sense needs to prevail and in this instance ensuring that they can legally take care of Molly is the best outcome for Molly.'

Oh, if only common sense prevailed, but Steven, there's no sign of it in this case, is there? 

Queensland legislation bans native wild animals from being domesticated because of the possible impact on wildlife.

Animals that are sick, orphaned or injured can only be rescued and cared for by those who hold a rehabilitation permit and intend to release them back into the wild.

A sensible law? Yes, so long as there's an understanding that there will always be cases that fall outside of it. 

However, the couple claim they did not look after Molly in the way a pet owner might look after a Cockatoo or a Parrot, insisting instead that the bird is free to fly around and forage for food.

Ms Wells was first asked to surrender Molly six months ago when authorities visited her home but she was unable to capture the bird as it was in a tree.

And that, right there, should have ended any planned DESI action. But bureaucracies are pricklier about their role that 17th century monarchs, and don't like to admit they were wrong. So of course, they doubled down and went in like stormtroopers, ignoring the evidence of their own eyes. 

Previously, DESI said that Molly could not fly like a normal magpie.

It's in a bloody tree! How else did it get there? 

There’s no choice but to work together …

… given the dire threats right now. Kathy Gyngell at TCW:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/

“ It left me thinking about the modern parallel – ‘deplatforming' and 'cancellation' and how effective it is in repressing truth, and how few there are today who have the strength to withstand it to defy deceit and lies, let alone sacrifice themselves. And finally how those few who do are mainly men, not women, and what a problem modern women and feminism has proved to be. Laura’s sending me a Times article prompted this last thought. The strapline read 'Education and a more feminised culture are causing female voters aged 18 to 29 to identify as liberal, while male resentment pushes them to conservative views'. 'Predictable', I emailed her, 'as men become ever more marginalised and emasculated? Women are the problem! Who can blame the men?' 'Yes', she winged back, 'the piece says that. It is good to see some push back from them. It's a wonder how any of them would be liberal. The numbers in the US are crazy – 30 per cent of American women aged 25-44 have no children (and) overwhelmingly vote Democrat. However, as the liberal childless women all run the HR departments they will have problems.’  ”

Ok … much as I am lost in waves of admiration for her, for Laura, for Laura Loomer, for Lara Logan … for our Julia … they are, in the end … women. They need men about, even peripherally, who are still manning up … there is no substitute for man plus woman … and kids look up, see it happening in this noble way, not sleazy … and it forms their futures too.

I don’t understand men not being what they biologically are … we’re built to defend, fight, heavy lift, protect … that’s our thang … we’re rudderless ships otherwise. But not overbearingly … goodness, there’s shirley a happy medium … and women also need to pull the head in a bit.

I don’t want a patriarchy, a matriarchy, a yoof-archy … we need a family model-archy, everyone playing his or her role … what on earth is wrong with that?  Those invader savages attack a woman or old person … all the males in the area pack in and pile on.

But what if the women have become harpy, hyena, man-hating hoes, sarcy, narcissist plus … and men are now wozzes? That’s totally twisted and I for one want no part of such a society.

Forget Sovereignty, Remember Gaia!

Once upon a time Britain would have sent a gunboat up the Yangtze River. That would teach those Chinese a lesson. To hear some MPs talk about Beijing’s espionage activities, you would think gunboats were already on their way.

Except we don't have any that work anymore. And even if we did, we'd not have anyonr with the balls to use them.  

Rishi Sunak was quick to the fray. “We’ve been very clear that the situation now is that China is behaving in an increasingly assertive way abroad, authoritarian at home, and it represents an epoch-defining challenge, and also the greatest state-based threat to our economic security,” he said. “So, it’s right that we take measures to protect ourselves, which is what we are doing.” That was clear. It was also ridiculous.

Oh? Is the threat not real? What other reason could you have for being so sanguine about a foreign power's attempt to subvert our country's sovreignty? 

Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, who is said to have been targeted alongside other parliamentarians in the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, was also blunt. China is not just a challenge to us, he said. It must be framed as a threat. “As they grow in power and potency, we are shrinking before them,” he said.

Seems real to me! So why would a red-blooded Englishman not feel the need to imitate the action of the tiger, stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...?  

Today the world’s relations with China are in one area crucial. That country is responsible for more than a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and rising. Britain is now actively participating in China’s proposed “greening” of its BRI programme, which is largely about infrastructure. Given that a third of all greenhouse gas emissions are from construction – a fact still ignored by British planning policy – this collaboration with China is central to fighting the climate crisis.

Oh. Of course. The modern beta male's response when faced with a threat. A drawn-out whine of 'But..but global warming!'. 

... a sense of proportion remains the hardest but most necessary quality to maintain in international relations. We are told daily that global heating is the greatest threat now facing the world. Unless that applies only before lunch, then it should surely lie at the centre of all relations with China.

We'd have trouble facing up to China if it came to a shooting war, Simon. What chance do you think we'd stand against that huge ball of hydrogen in the firmament?  

Are Conform just another division of the Uniparty

Will they fold and sell you down the river to the sea just as the Tories have and Labour are about to? Tice’s stunt in the Ukraine was also a red flag.